1. Karmic paybacks are a bitch and can't be denied. The über-Catholicism of Boston College and visiting Italy was too much for his body and soul to handle.

2. He was recording voice statement(s) in favor of the Articles of Impeachment and/or Vincent Bugliosi's The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, thus forcing Darth Cheney and his minions to cause the apparent heart attack.

Living under the War Chimp has made us all leery of normal causes. He was only two years older than my mother when she died BUT she had a long history of medical problems including quadruple heart by-pass surgery at 48 among other things.

_________________“I'm not a member of any organized party. I'm a Democrat.”-Will Rogers

A sudden death of a seemingly healthy major news figure at this point in time is always grist for conjecture.

Hope we find out what he was working on. If he had just told his superiors that he was going to spill the beans on Bu$hco............

Its a little like that guy who died from two "self inflicted shotgun wounds to the head." A wee suspicious.

_________________"If the people allow private banks to control their currency the banks and corporations will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

i saw the interview on msnbc in which a doctor explained how a piece of plaque from the artery wall came loose and caused a rather large clot that made it to his heart. he was describing the findings from the autopsy report. sounds like the autopsy was done very soon after he was pronounced dead yesterday. they also said his heart was slightly enlarged.

otherwise the doctor reported that he seemed to be in rather good health. but he also explained how the disease he had can be under control and yet still be a threat to cause what happened yesterday.

sad day for journalism..................true unbiased journalism.

i watched meet the press pretty much on a regular basis. i loved how he pulled no punches whether it was a republican OR democrat. if you thought you were going to slip something by him when you were on his show, guess again. he had the exaustive bulldog style of digging into your past archive of quotes/statements and always find some quip that usually ran completely counter to what you would be currently saying.

most people were scared to go on his show but it was undoubtedly more so with repugs who usually have a lot more to hide than democrats.